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Book Synopsis Mau Mau's Daughter by : Wambui Waiyaki Otieno
Download or read book Mau Mau's Daughter written by Wambui Waiyaki Otieno and published by Lynne Rienner Pub. This book was released on 1998 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of a woman who was a Kenyan nationalist fighter for the Mau Maus and later politician in Nairobi. Descended from Maasai refugees, Kikuyu frontier settlers, and autochthonous Dorobo hunter-gatherers, she tells the story of her ancestors, her childhood, how she got involved in the Mau Mau rebellion of the 1950s, the later story of her involvement with the Kenya African National Union, her marriage to Nairobi lawyer Silvano Melea Otieno, and the controversy over his burial, which was the impetus for the writing of this book. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Mau Mau & Nationhood by : E. S. Atieno Odhiambo
Download or read book Mau Mau & Nationhood written by E. S. Atieno Odhiambo and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades on from independence the role of Mau Mau still excites argument and controversy, not least in Kenya itself.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Life Writing by : Margaretta Jolly
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Life Writing written by Margaretta Jolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Bibliography of Imperial, Colonial, and Commonwealth History Since 1600 by : Andrew N. Porter
Download or read book Bibliography of Imperial, Colonial, and Commonwealth History Since 1600 written by Andrew N. Porter and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's overseas history has never been well supplied with comprehensive bibliographical aids, and, despite extensive public interest in the subject, the position has steadily worsened. Following the recent Oxford History of the British Empire, this volume is therefore designed to provide a general source of reference and bibliographical guidance, at once wide-ranging, up-to-date, and accessible.
Book Synopsis Your Daughter Iris by : Jerome Weidman
Download or read book Your Daughter Iris written by Jerome Weidman and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday. This book was released on 1955 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel in the form of letters to her mother from an ex stenographer during a trip to England with her husband.
Book Synopsis The Straw Hat Murders by : Harry Stephen Keeler
Download or read book The Straw Hat Murders written by Harry Stephen Keeler and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s tough being being Chief of Homicide when there have been four murders of piano students—all in the same studio apartment! So Huntoon Cambourne knows his job is on the line as he tries to prevent a fifth murder. He’s not lacking for clues because there is a cheap straw hat found at the scene of all four murders. And then there’s the matter of the killer leaving a $20 gold piece in the alms bucket of a deaf and blind mendicant down on the street near the apartment house. But how does the murderer get into the death room when the only opening is a trapdoor that’s only reachable by a dangerous 7-foot leap?
Book Synopsis The Reader's Digest by : De Witt Wallace
Download or read book The Reader's Digest written by De Witt Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 1955-03-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
Download or read book Unbowed written by Wangari Maathai and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-11-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • A remarkable memoir of courage, faith, and the power of persistence about one woman's extraodinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. “[Maathai’s] story provides uplifting proof of the power of perseverance—and of the power of principled, passionate people to change their countries and inspire the world.” —The Washington Post In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary life. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people’s environmental movement, focused on the empowerment of women, that soon spread across Africa. Persevering through run-ins with the Kenyan government and personal losses, and jailed and beaten on numerous occasions, Maathai continued to fight tirelessly to save Kenya’s forests and to restore democracy to her beloved country.
Book Synopsis Odin the Homeless and Other Stories by : Charles McKelvy
Download or read book Odin the Homeless and Other Stories written by Charles McKelvy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The New York Times Biographical Service written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of current biographical information of general interest.
Book Synopsis The Last Lion Box Set by : Paul Reid
Download or read book The Last Lion Box Set written by Paul Reid and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 3008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universally acclaimed for their compelling narrative, their fresh insights, and their objective renderings of Winston Churchill's life, The Last Lion trilogy presents a revelatory and unparalleled portrait of this brilliant, flawed, and dynamic adventurer, aristocrat, soldier, and statesman. Born at the end of the 19th century when Imperial Britain still stood at the splendid pinnacle of her power, Churchill would witness the shift a few years later as the Empire hovered on the brink of a catastrophic new era. One of the greatest wartime leaders of our time, he would go on to stand alone, politically isolated in Parliament, as he took the lead in warning of the growing Nazi threat, and would lead Britain to victory against Nazi Germany and the Axis powers in World War II. Now, celebrated historian William Manchester's landmark biographies are collected together for the first time, along with the eagerly anticipated final installment Churchill's last years in power. More than thirty years in the making, The Last Lion is the definitive work on this remarkable man whose courageous vision guided the destiny of a nation during darkly troubled times-and who looms as one of the greatest figures of our century.
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Download or read book Katz written by Peter Brock and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have never played the game, and I once asked a more current, internationally recognized prophet, 'How is it that I'm not invited to your prophetic functions, seeing that I have the history in this calling long before any of you?' He said, 'Art, the reason you're not invited is that you are not an 'in-house' prophet. We can't count on you to go along. You might upset the apple cart.' What I recognize in this flush of new prophets is a fraternity of mutual, self-congratulatory men who affirm one another and I do not fit in with that environment. They know it, and so I am not in that dimension. I am not known, or if I am known, I am either little known or scorned. -Art Katz interview (2001)
Book Synopsis Critical Race Theory and Bamboozled by : Alessandra Raengo
Download or read book Critical Race Theory and Bamboozled written by Alessandra Raengo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of film theory with interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. The third book in the series, Critical Race Theory and Bamboozled, offers a concise introduction to Critical Race Theory in jargon-free language and shows how this theory can be deployed to interpret Spike Lee's critically acclaimed 2000 film Bamboozled. The most common approach to issues of “race” and “otherness” continues to focus primarily on questions of positive vs. negative representations and stereotype analysis. Critical Race Theory, instead, designates a much deeper reflection on the constitutive role of race in the legal, social, and aesthetic formations of US culture, including the cinema, where Bamboozled provides endless examples for discussion and analysis. Alessandra Raengo's Critical Race Theory and Bamboozled is the first to connect usually specialized considerations of race to established fields of inquiry in the humanities, particularly those concerned with issues of representation, capital, power, affect, and desire.
Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 1959-08-13 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
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